International conference
QUALITY ASSURANCE OF LANGUAGE PROGRAMMES AT
EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS VIII
Under the Auspices of
Professor MUDr. Juraj Payer, PhD., MPH.
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University in Bratislava
and NULTE
Bratislava, 5 – 6 October 2023
All the necessary information and the registration form can be found in the following file:
Programme
KEY-NOTE SPEECHES
Dr. Johann Fischer
Developments – Challenges – Opportunities: Implementing the aspects of the CEFR Companion Volume and the NULTE standards to enhance the quality in teaching, learning and assessment
Laurent Rouveyrol
Assessing language activity, what are the challenges? A few insights from the CLES construct
SECTION I
LEARNING AND TEACHING LANGUAGES
I Language centres and their role at universities
II Languages in university curricula
III Language programme designing
IV Language programmes and learning/teaching materials
V Methodology of learning/teaching languages – past, present, future
VI Role of ICT in learning and teaching languages
SECTION II
ACQUIRING COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCES AND IDENTITY CHANGE/SHIFT
I Role model in teaching languages after abandoning the native speaker model
II Implementing a new role model in teaching languages
III Mistakes, their identification, categorization, and correction in acquiring communicative competences
IV The role of intercultural communication in identity shift
SECTION III
LANGUAGE TEACHER PROFILE
I Communicative competence – generalists vs specialists
II Communicative competence – complete profile – linguistic, pedagogical, ICT, and domain knowledge
III Mediation in its widest meaning (translation, mastery of general vs technical mother tongue, etc.); interculturality in mediation
SECTION IV
TESTS, TESTING
I What, why, when, who, how long…
II Test structuring, validity
III “Authenticity of tasks”
IV Assessment criteria